Boeing’s proposed fixed-wing aircraft, which could carry 100 or more passengers, has rotors on the wingtips that can be positioned like helicopter blades for take-off and landing, yet rotate around to become propellers in flight. The filing cabinet of futuristic ideas that is the U.S….

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Welcome to the future So, Boeing just patented a force field. Technically, the patent is for a “method and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc,” but that’s just a long way of writing out something unbelievably futuristic: protective force fields may one day make…

Boeing wants to patent its process for 3D-printed replacement aircraft parts. And here’s a novel twist in this era of pre-emptive patent filings: The company is already using 3D-printed aircraft parts. In a patent application published this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Boeing…